A criminal organization uses a chain of shooting galleries as a front for their operations that involve robberies, bank heists, contract killings and other fun stuff.
To get the goods on them, Steed convinces a rather annoyed Cathy to impersonate one of their members-- a female ASSASSIN-- who was arrested due to a forged passport. With the real killer in prison about to be deported, Cathy puts on the air of a tough German fraulein, and comes across as more "German" than the real killer!
Problems arise when a member of the group who tried to pull an unauthorized heist, and was supposedly killed for it, while being held at Steed's apartment calls the office to let them know someone is after them. More trouble occurs when the hit lady kills a prison guard, ESCAPES, and shows up at their front door claiming to be who she really IS! (If there's one thing I've learned watching crime dramas, it's that, without fail, EVERY time someone goes undercover pretending to be part of a gang, something winds up blowing their cover.)
Amidst a wide sea of talented writers, Terrence Dicks & Malcolm Hulke, later 2 mainstays of DOCTOR WHO, make their debut on this show with a tense thriller. As it happens, Dicks is the only person associated with this show I ever saw in person, at the very 1st "WHO" convention I ever attended, back in 1983.
Another fabulous guest cast is headed by by Kenneth J. Warren as "Felder", the local branch leader with ideas and designs of his own; I'll always most remember him as "Z. Z. Von Schnerck" in the hilarious Emma Peel episode "Epic".
Jerome Willis is "Moss", his cold-blooded, efficient sidekick; I always recall him most as one of the baddies in the Jon Pertwee DOCTOR WHO story "The Green Death".
Patrick Holt is "Manning", the top man in the outfit, who unknowingly has allowed his girlfriend to find out what he does for a living. I've seen him in many things, including IVANHOE, THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST, THUNDERBALL, MURDERERS' ROW, THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH, LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF, THE WILD GEESE, THE SEA WOLVES, plus a SAINT and 2 AVENGERS episodes.
Angela Browne is "Pamela Johnson", Manning's girlfriend whose discovery not only puts her own life at risk but winds up causing trouble within the group itself. I first noticed her in THE PRISONER episode "A Change Of Mind", where they tried to con Number 6 into thinking they'd performed brain surgery on him.
Julia Arnall is "Hilda Stern", who Cathy impersonates for most of the story. The only other thing I've seen her in was CARRY ON REGARDLESS, one of the early, better films in that series. She & Honor Blackman really get into a knock-down drag-out at the climax!
The picture on the 2009 DVD is excellent, while the sound is only slightly muffled.
Although Dicks & Hulke did write an "Intercrime" sequel, thanks to Brian Clemens & Albert Fennell, was was pretty much mutilated beyond recognition, which the writers did not appreciate. Meanwhile, however, an outfit called "Intercrime" became the MAIN recurring bad guys in the Japanese animated series 8TH MAN. That "Intercrime" was a lot more impressive than the one seen here!
To get the goods on them, Steed convinces a rather annoyed Cathy to impersonate one of their members-- a female ASSASSIN-- who was arrested due to a forged passport. With the real killer in prison about to be deported, Cathy puts on the air of a tough German fraulein, and comes across as more "German" than the real killer!
Problems arise when a member of the group who tried to pull an unauthorized heist, and was supposedly killed for it, while being held at Steed's apartment calls the office to let them know someone is after them. More trouble occurs when the hit lady kills a prison guard, ESCAPES, and shows up at their front door claiming to be who she really IS! (If there's one thing I've learned watching crime dramas, it's that, without fail, EVERY time someone goes undercover pretending to be part of a gang, something winds up blowing their cover.)
Amidst a wide sea of talented writers, Terrence Dicks & Malcolm Hulke, later 2 mainstays of DOCTOR WHO, make their debut on this show with a tense thriller. As it happens, Dicks is the only person associated with this show I ever saw in person, at the very 1st "WHO" convention I ever attended, back in 1983.
Another fabulous guest cast is headed by by Kenneth J. Warren as "Felder", the local branch leader with ideas and designs of his own; I'll always most remember him as "Z. Z. Von Schnerck" in the hilarious Emma Peel episode "Epic".
Jerome Willis is "Moss", his cold-blooded, efficient sidekick; I always recall him most as one of the baddies in the Jon Pertwee DOCTOR WHO story "The Green Death".
Patrick Holt is "Manning", the top man in the outfit, who unknowingly has allowed his girlfriend to find out what he does for a living. I've seen him in many things, including IVANHOE, THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST, THUNDERBALL, MURDERERS' ROW, THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH, LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF, THE WILD GEESE, THE SEA WOLVES, plus a SAINT and 2 AVENGERS episodes.
Angela Browne is "Pamela Johnson", Manning's girlfriend whose discovery not only puts her own life at risk but winds up causing trouble within the group itself. I first noticed her in THE PRISONER episode "A Change Of Mind", where they tried to con Number 6 into thinking they'd performed brain surgery on him.
Julia Arnall is "Hilda Stern", who Cathy impersonates for most of the story. The only other thing I've seen her in was CARRY ON REGARDLESS, one of the early, better films in that series. She & Honor Blackman really get into a knock-down drag-out at the climax!
The picture on the 2009 DVD is excellent, while the sound is only slightly muffled.
Although Dicks & Hulke did write an "Intercrime" sequel, thanks to Brian Clemens & Albert Fennell, was was pretty much mutilated beyond recognition, which the writers did not appreciate. Meanwhile, however, an outfit called "Intercrime" became the MAIN recurring bad guys in the Japanese animated series 8TH MAN. That "Intercrime" was a lot more impressive than the one seen here!